Total 90 Manager level Customer Service job vacancies in Liverpool, Merseyside, L11 0JA

A bit about us:

Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.

Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, affordable housing, stunning waterfront and our beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!

The Role:

In the role of a Service Delivery Manager, you will be in control of the SEN Transport and Social Care Transport Operation, including a team of 7 officers and a Principal officer. The role reports directly to the Head of Passenger Transport and Fleet
As a Service Delivery Manager, you will work on schedules and processes to ensure service users safe and efficient carriage as well as liaising with contractors, service users, parents and carers, schools, daycentres and parent forums regarding service delivery
Other management responsibilities can include ensuring all controls are in place regarding safe transport such as risk assessments and relevant equipment such as harnesses and child seats in use if appropriate along with undertaking investigatory or disciplinary hearings and grievances
As a member of the SEN and Social Care Transport team, you must comply with current legislation and policies; ensuring staff and contractors meet required safeguarding and DBS requirements as well as monitoring and updating KPIs and financial information
The Service Delivery Manager will work closely with stakeholders, including other departments, Parent & Carer forums, Transformation team and respond to complaints, appeals, freedom of information or SAR requests related to the department and will ensure invoices and spend is accurately controlled and reported
Our offer to you:

35 hour working week
At least 31 days holiday plus bank holidays rising to 35 after 5 years’ service (pro rata if part time) - option to purchase further days
Part of the Local Government Pension scheme – option to join the AVC scheme
Progression - opportunities and training through a wide range of high quality learning
Health and Wellbeing - offer including Employee assistance programme
Cycle to Work and Travel Pass Schemes
Drive Time – a salary sacrifice car lease scheme
Family friendly policies with enhanced leave
Discounted Gym Memberships
Employee Volunteering Scheme
Medicash
Next steps:

Closing Date is: Friday 29th November 2024

If you would like to talk to a member of the team about the role, please contact Peter Sass via Peter.Sass@liverpool.gov.uk

Liverpool City Council is committed to fostering a workforce representative of the communities we serve. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in appointing candidates based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. To support this commitment, we guarantee an interview to candidates from under-represented groups who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010, such as an application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact us at recruitment@liverpool.gov.uk
Applicants to go to website for more job details and a candidate pack.

Theobjective of the Informatics Merseyside Development Service is to develop digital solutions through collaboration and innovation. We are a high performing team, consistently looking to evolve our best practices, knowledge, and skills to provide innovative digital solutions to our partners and customers. We are a customer orientated service that is responsive and effective in the delivery of the digital requirements of our Partner Organizations (POs) and Customers in line with local and national IM&T priorities. The Development service provision is required to keep pace with ongoing development of technologies, providing solutions that are interactive for the end user and support changes in models of care delivery within the NHS and the need for agile working. The requirements now are increasingly for advanced custom development capabilities, using an array of platforms, languages, and technologies. The Development Service Delivery Manager will work with a range of stake holders (both internal and external) to ensure that developments are delivered to support our partners and customers objectives. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of solutions across all partners and customers, ensuring that all development work is completed within agreed timescales to the appropriate specification, managing quality assurance and deployment. Principal Responsibilities: Manage the development lifecycle, from capturing and documenting Partner and Customer requirements (including generating proposals and organising software demonstrations), prioritising work alongside competing demands, through to the delivery and transition to business as usual support. Receive and assess complex enquiries and requests for service from IM Partner Organisations, Customers and potentially other Trusts and transition those requests into the development lifecycle as appropriate. Interpret and communicate complex and highly technical issues to non-IM&T or technical staff, both internally within IM and externally within POs and Customers. Also to be involved in SLA meetings as appropriate and negotiations with third parties. Support the creation of designs and mock-ups for new solutions. Manage small teams on quick turnaround projects to create highly interactive applications and products, which includes customer projects, core technologies and internal product development. Collaborate with the development team to identify user acceptance criteria to gain Trust sign-off of work items, and manage the quality assurance (QA) and testing of solutions to ensure that they meet the agreed criteria. Take responsibility for the testing of solutions, ensuring cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility and compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the user's region or domain Manage the deployment of solutions into a production environment, supporting the definition/ implementation of, and adherence to, appropriate change control processes. Identify and document benefits delivered through development work, carrying out research where necessary to quantify achievement. Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies and author business cases and make recommendations to POs and Customers to support Innovation and the implementation of the latest technologies. Implement project management methodology to control and manage risks; issues; quality; delivery of developments on time and within budget. Providing regular highlight reports and working effectively across multiple teams. Feed into the process of internal IP development. Ensure that their own knowledge/skill set and that of the team remain up to date. Act as a role model to others showing a passion and commitment to the role and be an example of living up to the organizational values and behaviours. Provide IM&T service advice to inform IM and PO strategic business planning. Encourage the adoption of Agile approaches to solution developments. Ensure that all deliverables are compliant with the appropriate standards Contribute to continual improvement of the Development Service as part of the management team, by suggesting improvements to processes and contributing to strategic decisions related to the service.

A Vacancy at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you an experienced inpatient nurse? Have you moved on from inpatient care but miss it? Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?

Come and join our fabulous team on Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital.



This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.

Newton ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated staff team who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.

The range of skills you can learn and develop is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage a challenging setting.

On Newton ward we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development, leadership and training courses.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please view the job description for detailed responsibilities.

Newton Ward currently supports all wards across the Sefton, Liverpool and Kirkby footprint and of recent now provides psychiatric intensive care services to the whole of the Mental Health Division.

Newton Ward is 12 bedded mixed ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to service users, who are experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.

To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.

Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our psychiatric intensive care environment.


This advert closes on Sunday 1 Dec 2024

Please view the job description for detailed responsibilities. Newton Ward currently supports all wards across the Sefton, Liverpool and Kirkby footprint and of recent now provides psychiatric intensive care services to the whole of the Mental Health Division. Newton Ward is 12 bedded mixed ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to service users, who are experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs. To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety. Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our psychiatric intensive care environment.

Location: Liverpool

Helping Hands is an organisation that is committed to making a difference and we need motivated and passionate colleagues who will make it happen. Covering every region of England and Wales, we've been the home care provider of choice to thousands of families for over three decades. We're now looking for an Area Care Manager to join our team.

As an Area Care Manager, you will support the Regional Care Director by providing the highest standard of care to our customers and carers within Helping Hands. You will be overseeing the day to day running of approximately 10 branches as well as the live in care service in your locality.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead by example and be instrumental in creating excellent working relationships ensuring that Helping Hands values are delivered in a professional manner and are always maintained, with members of the team, company, and customers.
• Manage, report, and monitor performance within your branches and Live In service, always ensuring plans are put in place to improve. Report all progress being made along with agreed action plans to the Regional Care Director.
• Deliver excellent customer service standards across the area to ensure that customer and carer focus is always delivered, this will increase retention though an excellent service.
• Monitor and audit performance across your area to maintain 100% compliance across both services.
• Provide the Regional Care Director with regular performance updates from your area to include steps taken to improve areas of underperformance and areas of opportunity along with an update on the progress being made with key projects.

About You

To be successful in this role you'll need to have previous multi-site experience within the care industry. It is essential that you have significant experience of managing a large team and have good understanding of CQC/CIW guidance. You'll need to have excellent communication skills, with the ability to negotiate, influence and implement change along with the ability to build effective relationships.

Benefits

• Career progression opportunities
• Car allowance of £458 per month
• 23 days annual leave, rising to 25 after 2 years of service
• Blue Light Card offering discounts from business and services
• Access to our employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme, allowing you to receive a bonus if you recommend someone you know to come and work for us

Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce as we believe this develops a comfortable working environment for all our staff. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.

The Family First Service is looking for a compassionate and motivated Family First Case Manager to support families with children aged 0-18 who are experiencing complex, interrelated challenges. This role focuses on helping families develop effective parenting skills, strengthen family dynamics, and improve emotional health and well-being. Our goal is to enhance family outcomes, increase school attendance, reduce risk-taking behaviours, and foster employability.

Responsibilities

• Family Support: Conduct holistic Early Help assessments and collaborate with families to create and implement outcome-focused plans tailored to their unique needs.
• Lead Professional Role: Act as the main contact for each family, coordinating service delivery across multiple agencies to support progress on family plans.
• Multi-Agency Coordination: Facilitate the Team Around the Family process, applying the Signs of Safety/Wellbeing Model, and incorporate other evidence-based programs addressing issues like child development and exploitation.
• Program Development: Participate in the development and delivery of new prevention and early intervention programs for young people and parents.
• Practice Improvement: Engage in activities to support service improvement, including maintaining accurate records and participating in audits.
• Flexible Service Delivery: Support families through early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends, with appropriate time off in lieu (TOIL).

Requirements

• Relevant Experience: Previous experience in social work, family support, or a related field with an understanding of multi-disciplinary approaches.
• Skills in Engagement: Ability to connect with families and encourage participation in support programs.
• Assessment and Planning: Proficiency in conducting early help assessments, developing action plans, and adapting the Signs of Safety/Wellbeing Model.
• Strong Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills for effective interaction with families, children, and partnering agencies.
• Commitment to Best Practices: Knowledge of safeguarding policies and restorative practices with the ability to maintain accurate records.

Apply Now

If you are interested, please call Lisa McVinnie on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - lisa.mcvinnie@servicecare.org.uk

If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.

The benefits of working with SCS:

• A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
• Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!
• An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
• Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
• Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
• Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.

About The Role

Job Purpose

To lead and direct a team in developing and delivering person centred service.
Manage resources to successfully deliver service user and contract outcomes.
To develop staff skills and knowledge in delivering high quality services that are designed and delivered to meet the needs of individuals.
To apply the tools of person-centred planning, review, and team development.
Embed a quality assurance framework at a service level.


Living our Values

To ensure that staff develop positive relationships with service users, and they actively support individual outcomes.
Work with the team to deliver what is important to the people they support and what they want for the future.
To keep the people supported and those important to them central in the planning and review of their service.
Demonstrating the principles of person-centred practices.
Acting as a positive role model and coach to the team.


Principal Accountabilities

To follow the principles of person-centred approaches in all areas of operation.
To be responsible for assessment, planning, monitoring, and reviewing of individual support.
To ensure appropriate information is captured, reported, and analysed.
To lead and manage staff to ensure that the highest levels of performance and standards are achieved and maintained at all times.
To ensure that staff skills, gifts, qualities and strengths are put to best use.
To manage the recruitment of staff
To co-ordinate and deploy staff resources efficiently and effectively.
To develop and maintain a customer focussed ethos at all times and to ensure excellent working relationships with other professionals.
To ensure all staff receive appropriate levels of support through on-the-job coaching, regular supervisions and appraisals.
To ensure staff training and development needs are identified and met.
To organise and facilitate positive and productive team meetings.
To promote and nurture good practice.
To ensure practice in line with company policy, procedure and legislation.
To ensure the service delivery meets the required quality standards.
To promote community connections.
To ensure that all internal and external reportable events are appropriately managed and resolved.
To evidence quality service delivery.
To assist the Area Manager in effect resource management.


Responsibilities common to all managers

Demonstrate good judgment and sound decision making by reflecting an appropriate situational awareness, understanding of context and making informed choice when reaching decisions.
Lead and promote initiatives that support our organisational aim to be socially and environmentally responsible.
Lead and support initiatives/projects that promote the use of technology.
Establish, maintain, and develop professional working relationships with colleagues and external partners.
Contribute generally to the development of quality services.
Uphold the values, mission and vision of AFG at all times.
Adhere to AFG policies and procedures and to operate within the law at all times.
Demonstrate continuous professional development, encouraging others to do the same and to operate within the AFG performance management framework.
Work effectively with others to ensure the best outcome for the people supported.
Comply with Equality and Diversity policy.
Comply with Code of Conduct.
Work flexibly in accordance with organisational need.
Travel within the operational and business area of AFG.
Hold team meetings and disseminate corporate messages, feeding back issues and recognising staff achievement.
Comply with AFG recruitment and selection policy and process.
Act with integrity and transparency at all times.
Qualification & Training

NVQ3 qualification in management or care (or equivalent) or a willingness and ability to complete such a qualification within a set time period.
Training in Person centred practices (planning, review, team development).
About Us
We’re Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition.

We’re proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years.

We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create a personalised, outcome-focused plans to achieve their aspirations.

As a ‘values based’ employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you!

In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About The Role
**This is a Night role working 8pm-8am**
Reporting to the Home Manager, the Care Team Leader at HC-One will provide leadership and direction to the care staff within the home. As Care Team Leader you will lead by example, ensuring that all residents have their individual care needs adhered to at all times.
As a Care Team Leader you will be a team player and have good communication skills. Kindness will be second nature to you. You will have a keen eye for detail, always act with integrity and be driven by the principles of fairness. You will behave in a transparent manner always showing respect to our residents, their families, and your colleagues. You will also hold SVQ Level 3 in Adult Care and have previous experience of working in elderly and dementia care.
We’ll provide full training, so it’s a great opportunity to learn something new. In return, you will enjoy access to a huge variety of benefits and services to support your physical and psychological well-being and throughout your career as a Care Team Leader we will invest in you and you will enjoy additional support and benefits including:

- Paid Enhanced DBS/PVG
- Hourly rate is subject to experience and qualifications.
- Free uniform
- During a shift of eight hours or more a nutritious meal will be available
- Company pension scheme
- 28 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Group life assurance cover
- Award-winning learning and development and support to achieve qualifications.
- GP online - a service providing around the clock GP consultation via an interactive app - available to you and your children under 16
- An opportunity to learn from experienced colleagues as part of an outstanding and committed team.
- Colleague discounts – Access to over 1600 high street discounts including carefully selected discount partners.
- Wellbeing - free of charge access to an independent and confidential Employee Assistance Programme. This gives Colleagues and their family access to 24/7 365 support for a whole range of issues including physical, mental and financial issues
- Excellent recognition schemes such as ‘Kindness in Care’ and Long Service Awards
- An attractive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 per referral, depending on the role

We are committed to providing the quickest possible turnaround from the point of making you a job offer to you starting with us on day one.

The Dean Trust
c/o Ashton on Mersey School
Cecil Avenue
Sale
M33 5BP
Telephone: 0161 973 1179
Website: The Dean Trust

HUB IT SERVICE MANAGER

Salary: NJC Pay Scale, Band 10 Scale Points - 37-39 (£45,441 - £47,420 FTE)
Start Date: As soon as possible
Working Pattern: Full time, all year round
36.25 hours per week
8am-4pm Monday-Friday
Contract: Permanent
The Dean Trust is an educational charity established in April 2012, that currently comprises of 11 academies, 6 secondary, 4 primaries and 1 through school, operating in 3 hubs covering Trafford, Manchester, Knowsley and Wigan local authority areas, including some of the most deprived areas of the country. The Trust has seen steady growth since incorporation and aspires to grow further in the future.
The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced and enthusiastic Hub IT Service Managers to join our dedicated IT department and manage a group of first line IT Technicians within a hub of schools, as follows:

Hub IT Service Manager – West Hub will be responsible for the following schools;
Knowsley area; Lord Derby Academy, Park View Academy, Blacklow Brow Primary
Wigan area; Dean Trust Wigan, Dean Trust Rose Bridge

Regular travel between sites is a key requirement of the role.

The role will involve providing proactive and reactive hardware, software and peripheral support to all staff, students, Trustees/Governors, visitors and third parties in line with school/academy and Trust requirements.

The successful candidate will ideally have proven experience working in an ICT helpdesk/ICT support role, ideally in an education establishment and understand the diverse and wide range of tasks that are involved with supporting teaching staff, administrative staff and pupils.

Detailed knowledge of the latest Microsoft Windows Operating Systems & Microsoft Office packages is essential including the ability to diagnose and repair a variety of hardware and software issues.
Working together as a team has clearly made us stronger, and the support and challenge of each other has enriched each of our academies and the Trust. As an employer, the Trust is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit regardless of background or characteristics. Our aim is to create an environment in which individual differences and the way in which everyone contributes is recognised and valued.
To apply for this vacancy please visit our recruitment page careers.thedeantrust.co.uk.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact us on 0161 973 1179 or email katiehurst@thedeantrust.co.uk.

Please ensure that you identify which Trust Hub you would like to be considered for within your application.

APPLICATION CLOSE DATE: 9AM MONDAY 11^TH NOVEMBER

We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.

The Dean Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check.

Would you like to join our dedicated, highly skilled staff team to provide co-ordinated, high quality person centred care and support to our guests accessing Thyme Lodge respite service.

Thyme Lodge provides care and support which is tailored to the individual’s needs and preferences and promotes wellbeing, choice and community engagement to adults with a learning disability, mental health diagnosis, autism and physical disabilities.

We are recruiting a proactive and compassionate leader to oversee the operational management and quality of our respite care service in St Helens. Thyme Lodge is a beautiful, homely 5 bedroomed respite service with a comfortable communal lounge, kitchen/diner, conservatory and large garden. All 5 bedrooms are spacious and comfortable and each has en-suite facilities. The house is tastefully decorated throughout and always has a welcoming atmosphere.

Our guests have a range of support requirements including assistance with managing medication, finance support, personal care support and assistance to learn new daily living skills to help promote positive self-esteem and independence.

Our guests are looking for someone who is caring, passionate, fun, reliable and kind.

You will hold operational responsibility for all aspects of service delivery, CQC and contract compliance. You will promote and re-inforce a culture of responsive, professional, person-centred practice, and active support within the service. Relationships will be built based on respect and unconditional positive regard. You should have a well organised approach to staff deployment and service delivery.

You must have significant practitioner or management experience in relevant health and social care service provision alongside a warm, person-centered and respectful approach. An understanding of CQC quality requirements and care standards is essential. You should have a relevant professional qualification and/or a degree level qualification.

Creative Support is an Investor in People and we are committed to your continuous professional development. You will have the opportunity to meet your training and development needs with accredited training. You will be joining a very well-motivated regional team of senior managers who work together and support each other to provide excellent services in the North West.

If you would like to discuss this post and the benefits of working for Creative Support please contact Jackie Unsworth, Senior Operations Manager on 07971106309 or email jackie.unsworth@creativesupport.co.uk


Vacancy Reference Number: 72841

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number.




Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 33 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.




We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.




We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme.

The Service Manager will support work to drive the strategic direction and policy setting for the service withinthe context set by the Care Group leadership team, maintaining an essential communications link betweenthe speciality/specialities and feeding into the Care Group leadership team

Are you a Registered Nurse and experienced Manager and experienced nurse with a passion for providing quality care and support to adults and young people with Complex Care needs?

We are in partnership with one of the UK's fastest organically growing healthcare companies to employ an exceptional Registered Care Home Manager to provide leadership to a new service in Liverpool. This is a full-time role with a salary of up to of 65,000 depending on experience with great additional benefits.

A Key Role in the Organisation

As a Registered Nurse and a Care Home Manager, you will be working within a legislative framework with specific knowledge regarding CQC outcomes, regulations and standards. A key part in the development and growth of the organisation, you should have a great track record of managing services recognised by the CQC as Good or Outstanding to provide stability and the utmost quality standards.

The Next Step-Up for Exceptional Registered Manager

You will hold a minimum NVQ Level 4, Registered Manager Award or equivalent, as well as an active Nursing PIN. Experience managing residential, nursing or hospital services supporting Complex Dementia, Neurodisability, enduring Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism is desirable.


Leading, Supporting, Transforming and Empowering

The Care Home Manager will be responsible for:

• Recruiting, Developing, Leading and Supporting new and existing teams
• Instilling strong values and best practice within the service's senior and wider staff teams
• Ensuring the quality of services are of Good or Outstanding CQC Inspection Framework Standards
• Engaging with residents, relatives, health professionals, local authorities and other community groups to establish a sustainable and caring environment
• Effectively Leading Safeguarding processes
• Establishing policies and procedures to guarantee service user experience- right from initial referral to day to day wellbeing- meets the highest standards.

You'll need to demonstrate how you would effectively liaise with the Executive Management team and help to develop colleagues internally.

Part of a Great Team of Health and Social Care Professionals

This employer is a trusted and established healthcare brand with ambitious plans and offers great career opportunities- and the Care Home Manager role offers a great opportunity to gain experience that will lead to the next step in your care management career.

If you're interested in this unique role in Liverpool, please get in touch today. All interviews will be conducted online or on the phone.

Your health and safety are of primary importance to Search Consultancy and the clients we represent.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

Shifts Available: Sunday to Thursday, 9am-5pm, 37.50 hours per week, being on call on Sundays, with availability to be on call or work alternative days where necessary.

About ICare Group:

At ICare Group, we are more than just a care provider—we are a community-focused organisation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for those we serve. Our Home Care services offer essential support to individuals in the comfort of their own homes. As a Senior Care Co-ordinator (Assistant Care Manager), you will be instrumental in ensuring our clients receive exceptional care, while supporting the operational efficiency and growth of our services. If you have a passion for making a positive impact and thrive in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you!

Why Work with ICare Group?


£125 Welcome Bonus: Receive a welcome bonus upon joining (terms and conditions apply).
Refer a Friend Scheme: Earn £125 for both you and your referral through our 'Refer a Friend' Scheme (terms and conditions apply).
Quarterly and Annual Carer Awards: Be recognised and rewarded for your commitment with our Carer Awards.
Blue Light Card: Enjoy discounts at hundreds of high street retailers and well-known brands. We will reimburse the cost of your Blue Light Card!
Employee Assistance Programme: Access free, practical, and impartial support for you and your family.
Mileage Allowance: We offer a mileage allowance to cover the costs of travel during your visits.
Dedicated People and Wellbeing Team: Access to a supportive team focused on your wellbeing.
Growth Opportunities: We are committed to helping our employees grow and develop their skills, offering opportunities for career advancement.
Supportive Environment: Join a team that values your contributions and supports your growth. ICare Group fosters a collaborative environment where your skills and dedication are recognised, appreciated, and rewarded.
Make a Real Difference: Your leadership will directly impact the quality of care provided, enhancing the lives of our clients.
Weekly or Fortnightly Pay and Pension: Enjoy the stability of weekly or fortnightly pay and contribute to our stakeholder pension plan.
Toll/Bridge/Tunnel Costs Covered: We cover costs incurred if you need to take a toll road, bridge, or tunnel route to and from your ICare place of work (terms and conditions apply).


What You Will Do:


Support Management: Assist the Registered Care Manager with the day-to-day management and coordination of the branch to ensure it operates efficiently, profitably, and delivers the highest standard of domiciliary care.
Record Keeping and Reporting: Maintain accurate records, produce reports, and investigate complaints from service users and employees.
Recruitment and Staffing: Maintain and grow the team by actively recruiting new care staff, guiding them through the recruitment process, and producing weekly staffing rotas.
Business Development: Actively seek new business opportunities and support the commercial growth of the branch.
Operational Compliance: Stay informed about up-to-date operational issues and methods. Ensure compliance with health and safety, emergency regulations, and operational policies.
Emergency Duties: Undertake out-of-office duties as necessary, including providing emergency hands-on care, undertaking on-call duties, attending social events when required, and offering emergency telephone assistance to care staff.
Liaison and Coordination: Effectively liaise with other departments, employees, key stakeholders such as commissioners and customers, and the public at large.
Additional Duties: Quality assurance, assessments, reviews, care plans and to perform other duties as requested.


What We Are Looking For:


Experience in Care Management: Previous experience in a managerial or supervisory capacity in the domiciliary care sector is essential.
Qualifications: NVQ/QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care required. Level 5 in Health and Social Care is desirable or working towards.
Leadership Skills: Proven ability to effectively lead, delegate, and mentor staff.
Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills and a compassionate, empathetic nature.
Organisational Skills: High level of organisational skills with the ability to produce staffing rotas and manage multiple responsibilities.
Flexibility: Ability to work flexibly, including extended hours where necessary, and provide hands-on care during staff shortages.
Collaborator: Willingness to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and support your colleagues.
Driving License: A valid driving license and access to a vehicle are required.
Work Related Car Insurance: Hold or willing to obtain work related car insurance.
Background Checks: Willingness to undergo enhanced DBS clearance.


Ready to Make a Difference?

If you are passionate about leading a team and making a positive impact in the domiciliary care sector, ICare Group offers a supportive and rewarding environment to grow your career. Apply now by visiting our careers page at careers.icaregroup.co.uk. Join us at ICare Group and help us make a difference in the lives of our clients!

Equal Opportunities:

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How would you like to beinvolved increating innovative solutions that directlybenefitclinical staff and patients within the NHS?In theInformatics Merseyside Development Service,we use a variety of platforms to develop software applications and interfaces, supporting multiple NHS organisations.


We are looking for awell organised and enthusiastic individual towork with our management team as aService Delivery Manageron a12-month fixed term contract.This is a new role within the team,giving you theenviable opportunity to shape it as your own.


For more information about the role, and about Informatics Merseyside, we will be hosting a brief and informal virtual session on Microsoft Teams, that you are invited to join. Please email Catherine Diaz, Development Service Solutions Manager (Catherine.Diaz@imerseyside.nhs.uk) if you would like to be invited to join this session.




What we can offer:

• Hybrid Working

• Role based training

• Continued personal and professional development

• Consideration of requests for Flexible working arrangements

• Access to NHS staff discounts scheme

• Minimum of 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, depending on length of service this may increase.

• The opportunity toparticipatein the NHS pension scheme

Shortlisting planned for: 11 November 2024

Interviews planned for: 14 November 2024



The Service Delivery Manager willmanage theday-to-dayworkplan for the IM Development Service,ensuring thatalldevelopment work is carried outtoan agreedscope, within agreed timescales, deliveringanticipatedbenefits.Wherethere is a risk of thisnotbeingthe case, thepost holder willlead onmitigating activities and manageescalation and communication asappropriate.


The role willbe highly visible to external stakeholders,providing a link into the development servicefor partners and customersand managing communication.We are therefore lookingfor someonewithsignificant experiencecommunicating witha variety of stakeholders.


The successful candidate willalso lead on quality assurance of new developments, managing testing,deploymentand transition into “business as usual” fornew solutions.


Informatics Merseyside is an NHS shared serviceproviding digital services and support to health and care organisations across Cheshire and Merseyside and beyond. This includes major acute and specialist trusts, community and mental health services, generalpractitionersand Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and wider NHS service providers, networks and public bodies including NHS England.


Established in October 2006, we have over sixteen years of knowledge and experience in harnessing the benefits of digital technology to enhance ways of working to support better care, improve health, and enable people to live life more independently.


Hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, we employ over 300 digital professionals, as well as clinical informaticians, who share our values and strive for exceptional service.Over the years we have spentsignificant timeand effort engaging with our colleagues and wider stakeholders to build a successful organisation with a reputation for being warm and welcoming and this is just one of the reasons that we have so many long-serving staff.


We are committed to the personal and professional development of our colleagues (both through working in our services and through structured development programmes) and work proactively to support their health and wellbeing through a range of workplace policies and initiatives.


The objective of the Informatics Merseyside Development Service is to develop digital solutions through collaboration and innovation. We are a high performing team, consistently looking to evolve our best practices, knowledge, and skills to provide innovative digital solutions to our partners and customers.  

We are a customer orientated service that is responsive and effective in the delivery of the digital requirements of our Partner Organization’s (POs) and Customers in line with local and national IM&T priorities. The Development service provision is required to keep pace with ongoing development of technologies, providing solutions that are interactive for the end user and support changes in models of care delivery within the NHS and the need for agile working. The requirements now are increasingly for advanced custom development capabilities, using an array of platforms, languages, and technologies. 

The Development Service Delivery Manager will work with a range of stake holders (both internal and external) to ensure that developments are delivered to support our partners and customers objectives. The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of solutions across all partners and customers, ensuring that all development work is completed within agreed timescales to the appropriate specification, managing quality assurance and deployment.  

 

Principal Responsibilities: 
1. Manage the development lifecycle, from capturing and documenting Partner and Customer requirements (including generating proposals and organising software demonstrations), prioritising work alongside competing demands, through to the delivery and transition to “business as usual” support. 
1. Receive and assess complex enquiries and requests for service from IM Partner Organisations, Customers and potentially other Trusts and transition those requests into the development lifecycle as appropriate. 
1. Interpret and communicate complex and highly technical issues to non-IM&T or technical staff, both internally within IM and externally within POs and Customers. Also to be involved in SLA meetings as appropriate and negotiations with third parties.  
1. Support the creation of designs and mock-ups for new solutions. 
1. Manage small teams on quick turnaround projects to create highly interactive applications and products, which includes customer projects, core technologies and internal product development. 
1. Collaborate with the development team to identify ‘user acceptance criteria’ to gain Trust sign-off of work items, and manage the quality assurance (QA) and testing of solutions to ensure that they meet the agreed criteria. 
1. Take responsibility for the testing of solutions, ensuring cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility and compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the user's region or domain 
1. Manage the deployment of solutions into a production environment, supporting the definition/ implementation of, and adherence to, appropriate change control processes. 
1. Identify and document benefits delivered through development work, carrying out research where necessary to quantify achievement. 
1. Contribute to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies and ‘author’ business cases and make recommendations to POs and Customers to support Innovation and the implementation of the latest technologies. 
1. Implement project management methodology to control and manage risks; issues; quality; delivery of developments on time and within budget. Providing regular highlight reports and working effectively across multiple teams. Feed into the process of internal IP development. 
1. Ensure that their own knowledge/skill set and that of the team remain up to date. 
1. Act as a role model to others showing a passion and commitment to the role and be an example of living up to the organizational values and behaviours. 
1. Provide IM&T service advice to inform IM and PO strategic business planning. 
1. Encourage the adoption of Agile approaches to solution developments. 
1. Ensure that all deliverables are compliant with the appropriate standards  
1. Contribute to continual improvement of the Development Service as part of the management team, by suggesting improvements to processes and contributing to strategic decisions related to the service. 



This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Alt ward, a 17 bedded mixed acute ward. The role as a deputy ward manager is to support the Team Manager and Clinical Leadership Team to deliver high quality safe and effective care.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.

The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement and attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.




The post holder will assist the Clinical Team Manager in carrying continuing Professional and managerial responsibility for the ward.

The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a balance of Managerial and Clinical activity. They will ensure continuity of care for service users on their journey through the acute service.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Implement case load supervision to monitor the standards of service user care and ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.

Provide information, education and support for family members, carers and other relevant professionals.

Give/receive regular managerial/clinical supervision as per Trust policy.

Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.


This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024